This site is devoted to copyright and issues of 'intellectual property,' particularly the issue's analytical aspects. It also concerns itself with the gap between public perception and the true facts, and with the significant lag time between the coverage on more technical sites and the mainstream press. To see the list of sites monitored to create this site, see: http://rpc.
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In this primer, we'll explain how IPTV works and what the future holds for the technology.
The Office of the Solicitor General of the United States has filed a brief with the Supreme Court, taking the side of MercExchange. Business methods patents are miserable.An aide to the bill's author assures us it's not aimed at reporters, but the language is ambiguous at best.Oyster is a java-based system, which assists researchers in managing, searching and sharing ontology metadata in a peer-to-peer network.The success of the video pirates demonstrates the economic principal that the demand for entertainment is exquisitely elastic: DVDs priced at $15—the official, nonpirated retail price—hardly sell in China; DVDs priced at $1.25 a copy (or lower on the street) sell an estimated 1.3 billion copies per year. Well, no, it demonstrates that perfect substitutes are perfectly substitutable. Were they doing a longitudinal study of price changes, then they could conclude that the demand is elastic.
which launched v.1.0 today, allows musicians located anywhere to get together for jam sessions.
Your drummer’s in New York, lead guitar is in India, your bass player is somewhere else, and you’re on keyboard. No problem. eJamming lets you jam anyway.
And you can talk to the other More lowered barriers to music production. I don't have much hope for these, given past "rule-making periods'" lack of results.
The bad news is digital-rights management technologies will probably make your homebrew PVR obsolete faster than you can say "Super Bowl Sunday."
Today, the company will announce a deal with Verizon Wireless that turns an everyday device -- the cellphone -- into a novel remote control for TiVo recorders.As the blogger notes, it's unlikely that these tracks were individually paid for, as the RIAA would have us do. We can barely wait until the Cartel's jihad reaches the Holy See.Here’s the text of a letter I’ve sent to Congresswoman Lofgren and Congressman Boucher — the two key leaders on all things good re copyright in Congress — about the Copyright Office’s Orphan Works Report. No one will like me for this letter.
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